DEIB, Workforce Diversity, Racial Equity, Recruitment & Retention

Ceronne B. Daly Ed.D

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EDUCATION:

Boston College, Newton MA

Doctorate in Educational Leadership

Dissertation: CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: Educators of Color (EOC): What do they think districts should do to retain them? Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA Master of Education in Human Development and Psychology Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Bachelor of Arts Degree in History with a concentration in Russian and Chinese History CERTIFICATION: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - License # 519034

● Academic: Administrator - Principal/Assistant Principal - 5-12

● Academic: Administrator - Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent - All Levels PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Perrone-Sizer Institute - Hale Education Center, Westwood MA October 2022 to Present Educational Leadership Consultant

Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA July 2017 to October 2022 Managing Director, Office of Recruitment Cultivation and Diversity Programs

● Key advisor and strategic partner to the Superintendent and Chief Equity & Strategy Officer and collaborates closely with members of the cabinet and senior Management Team, particularly on issues regarding workforce diversity, Staff retention, and office climate.

● Works across the organization to optimize organizational culture, align the organization’s strategic plan and workforce diversity goals and be able to respond to changes or policies that occur outside of the organization that affects organizational culture, staff or students, and families.

● Provides strategic leadership of the review of all district policies to ensure the highest standards of equity, diversity, and inclusion in order to actualize the Superintendent's commitment to making BPS an Anti-Racist organization.

● Partners with the Office of Human Capital to administer and evaluate the results of staff engagement and climate surveys to achieve a more inclusive and diverse staff environment and to ensure that employees have a comfortable place to work and learn, regardless of their race, gender, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, or disability.

● The position directly oversees a team of 11 FTEs +75 per diem and contract staff and an office budget of $2M in operating and personnel funds including state and foundation grants. In July 2022, I secured funding to double the size of the team to 22 FTEs.

● In September 2021, over 48% of external hires were educators of Color. External Black hires were 23.95% of the total, a nearly 6% increase over last year, and by far the highest percentage in 7 years. Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA August 2012 to June 2017 Director of Diversity Programs

● Designed and launched a portfolio of pipeline development programs intended to cultivate the City of Boston’s racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse community in order to “grow our own” highly qualified educators and leaders:

o The BPS High School to Teacher Program is a 7-year initiative that recruits and supports the development of 50/75 BPS high school students from high school graduation, through college, ready to return to BPS as highly qualified teachers. o The BPS Community to Paraprofessional Development Program is a comprehensive 9-month training program that recruits a cohort of racially culturally and linguistically diverse Boston community members to prepare them to become highly productive paraprofessionals - 2nd cohort launched in March 2015

o The BPS Accelerated Community to Teacher Program is an intensive 9-month program designed to prepare racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse Boston residents OR BPS paraprofessionals, and substitutes who hold a Bachelor’s degree and experience working with children in a classroom setting to become novice BPS teachers with a preliminary license. 9th cohort launched in July 2022

o The BPS /UMASS Boston Education Administration Graduate Degree and Principal Certification Program is a two-year Education Administration Master’s Degree and Principal Certification Program for BPS educators. - 1st cohort launched in September 2015

● Secured funding, designed and launched new BPS retention programs: o BPS ALANA (African, Latino, Asian, and Native American) Educators Networking and Support Program - A forum for intellectual discourse that provides ALANA educators with a safe place to learn from one another, and share expertise, experiences, and practice o The BPS Male Educators of Color Executive Coaching Leadership Development Program

(MEOC) is a two-year leadership development program designed to increase engagement, retention, and leadership rates of male educators of color - 5th cohort to launch in October 2022 o The BPS Women Educators of Color Executive Coaching Leadership Development Program

(WEOC) is a two-year leadership development program designed to increase engagement, retention, and leadership rates of male educators of color - 6th cohort to launch in October 2022 o BPS School Leaders of Color Think Tank - Professional Learning Network that uses interactive problems of practice in order to identify solutions that directly build and sustain a strong school culture and student academic growth.

Wheelock College, Boston, MA August 2009 to July 2012 Director of the Office of Pre-Collegiate and College Access Programs

● Established a new institutional office; designed vision, mission, and strategic priorities that enabled Wheelock to make a significant contribution to transforming the education pipeline for public school students by preparing students with the academic skills and knowledge necessary for college access, success, and ultimately, civic engagement in the 21st century.

● Lead the Wheelock College Community Service Assessment and Development Project that resulted in a June 2012 report that outlines a strategy to better position Wheelock to organize, strategize, deliver, document, and report current and envisioned service and civic engagement efforts.

● Lead the institution’s Success Boston Initiative Team which resulted in an institutional plan committed to supporting Boston Public School alumni to both matriculate and graduate from Wheelock College

● Appointed by the college president to be the founding director and to design the Passion for Action Scholarship Program - a new global leadership and service scholarship program. The program accepted its fifth cohort of scholars in May 2012 and awarded 2 million dollars in scholarships. 100% of the first graduating class of scholars graduated in four years in May 2012 -60% of these scholars were Boston Public School graduates.

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● Designed program model; wrote and received a four-year 1 million dollar federally funded TRIO grant for Teacher Bound Upward Bound. Teacher Bound at Wheelock College was the only Upward Bound program in the country that was funded to be an urban teacher development program.

● 100% of the 50 scholars graduated from high school, enrolled in college, and completed their first year of college. The 50 scholars yielded eight Posse Scholarship finalists and one Posse Scholar attending Bryn Mawr and one Gates Millennium Scholar attending Syracuse University. As of SY 19-20, four of these graduates are tenured BPS teachers.

Wheelock College, Boston, MA November 2005 to July 2009 Director of Community Engagement Initiatives

● Newly created position reporting to the college president and Vice President of Academic Affairs focused on advancing Wheelock’s mission by developing collaborative community partnerships, strategies, and initiatives engaging the Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge communities.

● Appointed by the college president to design and manage the Bridges to Hope and Understanding: Exploring Truth and Reconciliation Youth Symposium with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. Chaired a multi-departmental/multi-institutional planning committee that successfully delivered the program model. Convened over 450 middle and high school students from 27 Boston public, private, and charter schools and all three past and present Boston Public School superintendents: Dr. Carol Johnson, Dr. Michael Contompasis, and Dr. Thomas Payzant.

● Designed and launched the first three Winter Policy Talks, an annual three-part series that convened over 1500 students, faculty, practitioners, school administrators, school leaders, district-level administrators, and members of the Boston community in a facilitated dialogue and learning opportunity about critical policy issues affecting children and families.

● Appointed by the college president to chair the Wheelock College Community Diversity Initiative - a cross-institutional effort intended to strengthen the Wheelock faculty, staff, and student community by addressing issues of diversity, multiculturalism, collaboration, and respect. The initiative concluded in June 2009 and resulted in the hiring of the institution’s first senior-level Chief Diversity Officer in July 2009.

● Appointed by the college president to design and lead a three-year community forum on The Education of Black Male Youth that brought 23 nationally recognized experts to Wheelock’s campus to discuss and explore resolutions connected to the education of black boys. The seminar series convened over 3,000 Boston area parents, community members, youth, school leaders, district leaders, educators, researchers, funders, and METCO directors.

The University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA December 2004 to May 2005 College of Education and Human Development, Adjunct Instructor

● Developed curriculum and practicum seminar for undergraduate and graduate education majors pursuing licensure in Secondary Education. Outcome: Successfully mentored and instructed 100% of assigned students to complete the state requirements for licensure including their University-approved Capstone Teaching Portfolio.

Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA August 2001 to November 2005 Director of the TEACHBoston Program

● Designed and led TEACHBoston, a district-wide pre-collegiate teacher education awareness program; partnered with Wheelock College to offer 6-week summer teaching academies and with Boston High Schools to provide year-long academic courses.

● Program outcome: 93% of the students who attended the four summer teaching academies graduated from high school and enrolled in college/university.

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Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA November 1999 to July 2001 High School Restructuring Coordinator

● Designed and supported school leaders in implementing a district-wide high school restructuring initiative.

● Developed innovative professional development programming for Boston school leaders and administrators to support whole-school reform.

● Chaired a citywide high school support team (a cross-functional group with representatives from the community, school district, and other local education agencies) that served to inform the superintendent’s high school reform agenda leading to a Gates Foundation grant that fully funded high school restructuring.

● Co-facilitated a yearlong high school teacher inquiry/research group with Sonia Nieto Ed.D. The research was a qualitative analysis of resiliency factors for urban educators. It resulted in the publication of a book entitled - What Keeps Teachers Going published in February 2003.

● Initiative Outcome: The initiative served to inform the superintendent’s high school reform agenda leading to a Gates Foundation grant that fully funded high school restructuring. Annenberg Institute for School Reform - Brown University, Providence, RI July 1997 to July 1999 Senior Associate for Professional Development

● Designed and facilitated professional development initiatives for educators, principals, and district personnel on a national level, focused on how to develop collegial relationships, encouraging reflective practice, and to rethink leadership to implement and sustain whole school change GRANT WRITING EXPERIENCE:

Grant writer and principal investigator for federal, state, and foundation grants totaling over 5.084 million dollars in funding.

$3,000,000 MA Dept of Elementary & Secondary Education - ESSER (I, II & III) Grant July 2020

$150,000 MA Dept of Elementary & Secondary Education - Bilingual Education Grant December 2019

$108,000 MA Dept of Elementary & Secondary Education Teacher Diversification Grant September 2019

$356,000 MA Dept of Elementary & Secondary Education Teacher Diversification Grant April 2019

$140,000 Four consecutive years of AmeriCorps funding to provide a full-time position in the Office of Pre-Collegiate and College Access Programs responsible for coordinating youth leadership development projects in four Boston public High schools and four Boston area colleges. July 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012

$105,000 Three consecutive years of AmeriCorps funding to support a full-time position shared by Boston Community Leadership Academy- a Boston Public High School and Wheelock College. The staff members provided one on one college access support to all seniors. August 2008, 2009, & 2010

$1,000,000 Federal TRIO Upward Bound grant; four year grant to launch the Wheelock College Upward Bound Program - August 2008 to August 2012

$225,000 Private foundation grant to support summer programming of the Wheelock College Upward Bound Program – March 2007 to March 2010 4 of 5

COMMUNITY SERVICE EXPERIENCE:

Milton Public Schools Milton, MA November 2022 to December 2022 Parent Representative, School Superintendent Search Committee Teachers 21 Newton, MA September 2015 to June 2017 Board Member

Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color - Boston, MA September 2008 to April 2017 Founding Executive Board Member - Treasurer

Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Malden, MA October 2015 to June 2016 BPS Educational Equity Professional Learning Network Chair Edvestors, Boston, MA

● Reviewer for 2018 School Solutions Seed Fund November 2017 to December 2017

● Reviewer for 2016 School Solutions Seed Fund November 2015 to December 2015

● Reviewer for 2015 School Solutions Seed Fund November 2014 to December 2014 Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Malden, MA April 2013 to April 2014 Massachusetts Advocates for Diversity in Education Taskforce Member FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS:

Boston College - Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Newton MA May 2022 2022 Partner in Service Award

Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge MA March 2017 2017 Alumni of Color Conference Alumni Achievement Award University Council for Educational Administration, Charlottesville, VA November 2016 2016 Excellence in Education Award

YW Boston, Boston MA September 2012 to November 2013 LEAD Boston Fellow

Jewish Community Relations Council, Boston, MA November 2011 to June 2012 Boston Haifa Learning Exchange Fellow

Center for Collaborative Leadership, UMASS Boston, Boston, MA January 2011 to December 2011 Emerging Leaders Fellow

Northeastern University, Boston, MA September 2002 to June 2003 The Institute for Educational Leadership - Education Policy Fellow 5 of 5

PRESENTATIONS

2023 The Massachusetts Partnership for Diversity in Education (MPDE), Norwood, MA February 16, 2023 Annual Building Bridges Conference - Creating Cultures of Belonging

● Keynote - Amplifying the Voices of Educators of Color: Learning What Districts Should Do To Retain Them 2022 METCO Directors Association Educators Conference, Weston MA December 1, 2022 METCO Directors & DEI Leaders Forum

● Keynote - Providing Social-Emotional Support to Retain Staff of Color 2017 The National Coalition on School Diversity 4th National Conference October 20, 2017

“A Struggle We Must Win: Advancing School Integration Through Activism, Youth Voice, and Policy Reform,”

● Co-facilitator: A New Table: Cultivating a Racial Equity Lens in School District Decision-Making 2016 30th Annual UCEA Convention: Detroit, MI November 17, 2016 Revitalizing Education in Complex Contexts: Re-envisioning Leadership, Refreshing Practice, Redefining Student Success,

● Co-facilitator: Partnering for a Diverse Principal Preparation Pipeline. 2016 Council of the Great City Schools - 60th Annual Fall Conference, Miami FL October 20, 2016 Getting Personnel: Hiring And Developing Urban Teachers And Leaders

● Panelist: Building Pipelines to Keep “Home-grown” Diverse Talent in Boston Public Schools 2016 The Century Foundation & The National Coalition on School Diversity Gathering October 18, 2016 School Diversity in Action: Strategies for Increasing School Diversity and Fostering Equitable School Environments

● Panelist: Diversity within Schools: Teacher Diversity and Development PUBLICATIONS

Authored Or Co-Authored:

● Daly, C. B. (2022). Critical Consciousness and Educational Leadership: Educators of Color (EOC): What Do They Think Districts Should Do to Retain Them? (Doctoral dissertation, Boston College. Lynch School of Education).

● Leonard, J., & Reardon, R. M. (2017). Exploring the Community Impact of Research-Practice Partnerships in Education. IAP. (Co-authored Chapter 1)

Contributing Researcher And/Or Writer:

● Despenza, N. (2018). Missing in Action: A Critical Narrative Study of the Absence of Black Female Secondary Science Teachers (Order No. 10842110). Available from Publicly Available Content Database.

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● Nieto, S. (2003). Challenging Current Notions of “Highly Qualified Teachers” through Work in a Teachers’ Inquiry Group. Journal of Teacher Education, 54(5), 386–398. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487103257394

● Nieto, S., Gordon, S., & Yearwood, J. (2002). Teachers' experiences in a critical inquiry group: A conversation in three voices. Teaching Education, 13(3), 341-355

● A Life of Teaching: Reflections from Teachers in an Inquiry Group Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education. (n.d.). Retrieved February 1, 2023, from https://urbanedjournal.gse.upenn.edu/archive/volume-1-issue-2-fall-2002/life-teaching-reflections-teachers- inquiry-group

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MEDIA:

The Boston Globe October 4, 2021

● Staff, N. M. G., October 4, U., 2021, & Comments, 9:29 am Share on Facebook Share on TwitterView. (n.d.). Boston’s teacher diversity has barely budged in 10 years. District leaders hope the next decade will look different - The Boston Globe. The 74 Million.org September 8, 2020

● D’Orio, W. (n.d.). 46 Years After Divisive Court Order, Boston Schools Still Struggle to Hire Black Teachers.

Education Week April 26, 2017

● Iasevoli, B. (2017, April 26). Boston Program Supports Male Educators of Color. Education Week. The Boston Globe Magazine June 16, 2016

● Cray, C. (2016, June 16). Boston Public Schools Launched a New Diversity Program. Boston Magazine. Education Week - May 2, 2016

● Loewus, L. (2016, May 2). Secretary King Talks Teacher Diversity With Boston Educators of Color. Education Week.

The New York Times April 11, 2015

● Rich, M. (2015, April 11). Where Are the Teachers of Color? The New York Times. The Baystate Banner December 17, 2014

● Program puts BPS students on path to Boston teaching jobs. (2014, December 17). The Bay State Banner. INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND STUDY:

Bahia, Brazil April 2018

● Led Boston Public School Educators on an exploration of Afro-Brazilian Art & Music Eastern China from Shanghai to Beijing October, November 2016

● Keynote speaker and recruiter on a multi-national team of PreK- 16 institutions Havana Cuba February 2017

● Cultural and Educational Travel And Study

Haifa and Jerusalem Israel January 2012

● Social Justice Learning Exchange as a fellow of the Jewish Community Relations Council Ghana and Benin West Africa March 2008

● Co-taught Wheelock College/UMASS Boston student service learning trip on Education and Africa’s role in the American Slave trade with Dr. Joyce Hope Scott, Clinical Professor of African American & Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University, national and international scholar/lecturer in African American and Diaspora studies.

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